You probably don’t need to be told this, but May 2012 is ontrack to become the coldest for over three hundred years.

It comes “hot” on the tail of the wettest April in a century and the driest March for more than fifty years. And let’s not forget that 20 million people are still banned from using their hosepipes! (from The Great British Weather)

But this is serious folks! Livelihoods are affected. I heard a farmer on the radio complaining at the lack of grass growth. A quick search on-line turned up data from Ireland where the contrast to last year’s warm April couldn’t be more dramatic: